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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

In Focus:  How the NCAA’s institutional barriers shut out black coaches

In Focus: How the NCAA’s institutional barriers shut out black coaches

May 28, 2019

Editor’s note: When this article refers to Division I schools and their statistics, HBCUs are excluded from the numbers. When former Northwestern assistant coach Pat Baldwin started playing basketball...

By coming out, men’s soccer player Robbie White makes history

By coming out, men’s soccer player Robbie White makes history

November 20, 2017

Robbie White went to his first Engage meeting with a plan to sit in the back and just listen. It was February 2017. White, then a redshirt freshman goalkeeper on the Northwestern men’s soccer team,...

Athletic department announces LGBT SportSafe partnership

June 26, 2016

Northwestern's athletic department announced Wednesday that it would be among three launch partners for the LGBT SportSafe Inclusion Program, an initiative that seeks to promote the inclusion of LGBT athletes. Along...

Breaking the silence: Northwestern’s LGBT athletes struggle to find their voices amid a lacking support system

Breaking the silence: Northwestern’s LGBT athletes struggle to find their voices amid a lacking support system

November 7, 2014

Tara Gordon did not want to be just another stereotype. For Gordon, a Northwestern field hockey player, coming out as lesbian would validate the stereotype that female athletes tend to identify as LGBT. “I...

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